Poll: Babylon5 or Star Trek?

[imhotepmp]

Which was the better series? Being a ST fan since the orignial series, I think babylon5 is a cross between st and star wars.
Also I like the whole Babylon5 universe ships(whitestars are nice! more mauevarable than the defiant), more than ST. Seems more of realistic view of the future, imho.

What does everyone else think?


imhotepMP

 

[Schola]

I think Babylon5 was the better of the two because it was more realistic. Both are good but in my opion B5 was the better of the two

Schola

 

[Azraele]

Star Trek for me. B5 never really interested me for some reason.

 

[LordMaul]

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Neither.

 

[MWink]

Star Trek is the BEST!

 

[uncouth]

Babylon 5 was like reading a good book whereas Star Trek is like watching a scene from a given 007 movie. Sure some of those scenes are really slick but when added together they don't add up to a whole lot (ie Moonraker, License to Kill, The Man w/Golden Gun). Babylon 5 however had meaningful connections between its episodes.

If both had great actors/characters it would be a hard choice to pic given similar time slots. But considering how Star Trek, with the exception of The Next Generation, has been throwing out crappy actors and stories it would not be hard for me to choose Babylon.

Lastly, Babylon 5, although very good when watched as a chronicle is almost impossible to pick up part way through unless you have already watched the series once. Who the hell are these aliens? What the hell is that guy planning/double/triple crossing? In Star Trek the people are always the same and the end of each episode (except for the 2x episodes) end with Kirk/Picard/DS9Captian/Janeway sitting on the helm with the ship peacefully floating through untroubled space.

My vote goes to Babylon 5 followed closely by The Next Generation and then by Gideon's Crossing

 

[Pyxis]

I like both of them but I think that B5 has the edge.

 

[Train]

B5 was such a stupid soap opera, it was like watching government TV of the future, all this debating and blah blah politics, give me TNG reruns anyday.

 

[Comp10]

I used to think Star Trek was the best, however after watching more of the Babylon 5 episodes (and in correct order which is important to understand whats going on) I can say without a doubt that Babylon 5 is by far the better show. Star Trek simply lacks the depth of the characters and stories found in Babylon 5. I've quite often found myself days later thinking about what happened in a Babylon 5 episode, which is something I certainly can't say for any Star Trek episode. If you watch the whole babylon 5 series from the first episode to the last in the proper order i'm sure all you Star Trek fans will change you mind.

 

[Total Refected Power]

Babylon 5 seasons 2-4 was awesome. It was refreshing to have episodes largley connected instead of TNG planet hopping.

 

[Pyxis]

TRP is right, seasons 2-4 are the best. I think that season 5 sucks bigtime:disgust:

 

[Guygye]

Have to echo B5, I was hooked at throughout the whole show, not so for any ST series, although I liked NG best of the ST series. And besides no ST series had as much action as B5.

 

[imhotepmp]

Weird, looking at the post you would think that B5 was mopping the floor with ST, but currenly yhe poll is 11-7



man, I didnt think it was that close.


imhotepMP

 

[BP]

B5--- for one thing...there's a plot.Things that happened on the show in season1 have a bearing on the rest of the series.

The ships...functionality of design.I mean a Starfury looks like it would really work,hell,even NASA asked JMS if they could use the layout for a maint. vehicle on the Int. Space Station.

The physics.Watch dogfighting 'Furies...*A bogie on your tail?* just 180 and open up.No airplane like acrobatics in space please.

Don't get me wrong,I like TOS.It was the first show that took space sci-fi and gave it to adults to enjoy.It's a shame the sequils didn't live up to it.


If you want a B5 game go to http://www.firstones.com

If you want a B5 mod for Independance War,Homeworld or Freespace try : http://mods.firstones.com/

PS.the forum's down for a few days while they rearrange things.

 

[maleficent]

babylon5

 

[Elledan]

Star Trek of course you <a target=new href="http://www.startrek.com/library/klingon_linguistics.asp?id=50435
">Qlp</a>!

I actually care the most about how realistic the used technologies are. I've watched Babylon 5 as well, but didn't really like it.

 

[bastula]

I like Star Trek better. I never really got into B5 - I watched a few eps, but it really didn't pique my interest like when I watched ST for the first time.

 

[dennilfloss]

Babylon 5. It had everything + Patricia Tallman (Lita Alexander).

Excalibur had the most elegant ship around but the 'Voyager meets Lex' plot meant that the show as a whole blew Baluchiterium balls. :|

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